Current Affairs - State

Andhra Pradesh Police launched the Centralised Drone Monitoring Portal (CDMP) and SafeStay AP app to strengthen surveillance, crime prevention, and public safety. The initiatives were launched in Guntur on September 22, 2026, by Director General of Police Harish Kumar Gupta in collaboration with Guntur Superintendent of Police Vakul Jindal. The CDMP provides authorised police personnel with a centralised live feed of active police drones and AI-powered monitoring and analytics. SafeStay AP provides real-time occupancy information from hotels and paying guest accommodations. Students and technology professionals from KL University contributed to developing these technology-based policing solutions.

The Assam government announced that all government offices in the state will transition to a paperless e-Office system from January 1, 2027. The decision, announced by the Chief Minister's office on September 23, 2026, aims to make public administration transparent, efficient, and people-friendly. The e-Office system, designed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), digitises file handling, notes, drafting, digital signing, and archiving. Currently, all 58 departments of the Assam Secretariat already use e-Office, and implementation is being extended to directorates and Deputy Commissioners' offices. Assam began this digital governance initiative in 2021 and launched e-Office District in 2026.

Nagaland is associated with Angh, a Konyak-language film directed by filmmaker Theja Rio, which won the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2026. The film is set in Nagaland in the early 1960s and explores the lives of a former village chief and his young son amid social and cultural changes. The Platform Prize is TIFF’s top award in its competitive Platform section and carries a cash prize of C$20,000. The award also provides Angh with a pathway toward consideration for the International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards through the newly introduced festival-award qualification route.

Punjab and Haryana received India’s first-ever soil carbon payments for adopting regenerative agriculture. On September 17, 2026, payments worth ₹2.9 crore were initiated for more than 2,500 smallholder farmers in these two states. The Direct Benefit Transfer was launched at Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana. The payments were part of the ‘Aadi’ carbon programme launched by Grow Indigo in 2019 with technical guidance from ICAR. The initial phase covered 30,000 acres and generated 50,000 carbon credits. Individual farmers received payments ranging from ₹3,000 to ₹15,000 for verified improvements in soil carbon and reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.

Tamil Nadu will launch the one-gram gold ring scheme, known as the Thaimaaman Thanga Mothiram Thittam, for eligible newborns delivered in government hospitals. The scheme is scheduled to be inaugurated on September 28, 2026, and has been made retroactive from June 22, 2026. Under the scheme, eligible babies will receive a one-gram, 22-carat gold ring with a unique serial number. The first batch of 1.28 lakh rings has been procured for distribution. The state government has made an annual provision of ₹755.83 crore to support the scheme, which draws inspiration from the Tamil tradition of Thaimaaman Seer.